Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Classic Film Lovers Guide to Hulu

If you missed an episode of Family Guy or Dollhouse, chances are you'll run to Hulu.com to watch said episode online. Full-length TV episodes are what this site is most known for. But did you know Hulu has a big selection of full-length classic film features available for viewing?

I ran across the full-length video of Pleasure Seekers (1964) on Hulu a few months ago, purely by accident. I was doing research on Pamela Tiffin who had been my main interest at the time and who happens to be in that movie. I had caught the last 40 minutes or so on the Fox Movie Channel and wanted to see the whole thing. That's where Hulu came in and I got a chance to see the whole movie!

Fast forward a few months later and I took a couple hours to do some real digging. I went through Hulu's vast collection of full-length movies and grabbed links to any films from the 1920s to the 1960s. I created a guide to the Classic Films on Hulu (see below). I tried to organize them by categories so it's more user friendly.

This list is only temporary as a lot of films on Hulu have expiration dates. In fact, Pleasure Seekers expired today! (boo). So if there any films on here you are interested in, watch them now.

This list is great! Though I've watched a lot of classics on Hulu, I've never weeded through the whole list to see what was in there. I'm very impressed by and appreciative of your effort! I'm so bummed I missed Pleasure Seekers; I've been wanting to see that :-P

Thanks for sharing that, Raquelle! For Jonas and others outside the States, I might point out that there are some classic films on places like YouTube and elsewhere (including Spotify). And I'd like to point out for those who love classic TV shows as well as classic films, both NBC and CBS have been pretty good about putting up some of their classic shows on their websites (Alfred Hitchcock Hour and The Twilight Zone)!